PS:
Vilros PSU with on/off
You're not an IT guy, so you probably don't know that switching off by PSU can destroy your file system.
The Argon ONE case has a power button. Do you use this button to shutdown? If you don't, here are your instructions to use it on LE.
If you did the bad power-off by PSU switch, then you don't need to buy a new microSD. Reformat it and do a fresh LE installation. That should fix a broken file system.
Wow, that's cranky! Maybe your microSD card is bad. Try a fresh installation on a new microSD card.
Do you remember the screen mode (resolution, refresh rate) of the last working LE version?
Maybe the current LE doesn't detect the right screen mode for your device:
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2020-03-12 18:34:23.659 T:2994022240 NOTICE: Whitelist search for: width: 1904, height: 1072, fps: 23.976, 3D: false
2020-03-12 18:34:23.659 T:2994022240 DEBUG: Trying to find exact refresh rate
2020-03-12 18:34:23.661 T:2994022240 DEBUG: No exact whitelisted resolution matched, trying double refresh rate
2020-03-12 18:34:23.662 T:2994022240 DEBUG: No double whitelisted resolution matched, trying 3:2 pullback
2020-03-12 18:34:23.663 T:2994022240 DEBUG: No 3:2 pullback refresh rate whitelisted resolution matched, trying current resolution
2020-03-12 18:34:23.663 T:2994022240 DEBUG: Matched current Resolution 1920x1080 @ 23.976025 Hz (42)
2020-03-12 18:34:23.663 T:2994022240 NOTICE: Display resolution ADJUST : 1920x1080 @ 23.976025 Hz (42)
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I think LE is searching for a wrong screen mode (1904x1072) and ends up using a too high resolution (1920x1080).
Select a lower resolution (1280×720) and try again.
Remove hdmi_safe=1 and try this at config.txt:
hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080
framebuffer_width=1920
framebuffer_height=1080
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16If necessary, calibrate the screen by using LE's video settings.
Hey Mike,
I'm pretty sure that's all you need to get audio.
Is there a conf file that allows you to add a parameter to the command launched by the interface?
Or is it possible to mount this DVD drive other than SCSI?
I never heard about such options. I think it's all hard coded. You could write a bug report, or wait for LE 10, which will get a face lifting.
PS: I was just reading that /storage/.config/udev.rules.d provides some editable mount options. Have a look at this.
<fvolumelevel>0.173333</fvolumelevel>
That's low! Set it to 1.000000 (max).
config_hdmi_b00st = 9
Remove this, because it's ignored on RPi 4B (source).
"USB Attached SCSI" (UAS) includes a slower Bulk-Only Transport (BOT) mode for data transfer. Maybe CD uses BOT and DVD uses UAS, resulting in different command line options for each mode. I think it's a bug not to implement UAS for eject by GUI.
The TV resolutions and years of production are important to answer this.
When people start using the RPi 4B on a modern 4K TV, then often the HDMI cable is too old. Be sure you are using an HDMI 2.0 or 2.1 standard cable to be ready for 4K.
If your non-working TV is very old (first flat screens), then it could be necessary to enforce a video mode at config.txt. Read here.
I think I'll have a play with overscan and forcing the frame buffer size and see what comes out.
Exactly. Disable overscan and make frame buffer size fit to your selected resolution.
Try LE's screen calibration whenever you check a new video mode.
Here is another config.txt setting for an older TV, which you can try: click. Maybe it does the trick for the final half inch.
Another short research says LE is using samba.conf instead of smb.conf.
Create /storage/.config/samba.conf and increase aio read size and aio write size.
Read the smb.conf documentation and find the equivalent variables at samba.conf.
Sounds like a buffering issue. I don't use Samba, but a short search says that Samba has socket options with SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF buffer size values. Find smb.conf on LE and increase those values.
Just yesterday I've been installed libdvdcss on my Ubuntu. It needs two commands at root mode:
apt install libdvd-pkg
dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkgHaving those libraries on your build system hopefully makes the "dvdcss-autoreconf" call successful.
It's "HD ready".
Some TV's have picture optimization modes, which increases the picture size to outside the screen (not much, but visible).
Check your TV settings, and disable all picture optimization modes you have.
Have you tried a different HDMI cable? 4K needs an HDMI 2.0 or 2.1 standard cable, because of higher data rate.
Perhaps you can create a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu 18.04.4 or upwards.
I agree. That's a good reference point to start with.
Additionally try to access your BIOS / EFI menu. Maybe you'll find some tweaks there.
Usually missing sound will not stop video playback on LE.
Hardware specs are interesting for me. I remember a user with a really tiny PC, and CPU performance mode was BIOS-blocked to avoid heat issues. Tiny PC's often want to switch to performance mode after some seconds of video playback, like described here.
